Peter Capell

Peter Capell

Birth : 1912-09-03, Berlin, Germany

Death : 1986-03-03

History

Peter Capell (3 September 1912 - 3 March 1985) was a German actor who was active on screen from 1945 until 1985. His first role was in Winterset, shortly after the end of the Second World War. His final role came a year before his death, when he appeared in Mamas Geburtstag. Both of these were television productions. He also appeared in many films, including Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), in which he played a "tinker" who spoke to Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) at the gates of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Capell died, aged 72, in March 1985. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Capell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Peter Capell

Movies

Mamas Geburtstag
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
Kalman Lauer
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
The Little Drummer Girl
Schwindli
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
Charlotte
Grandfather
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
The American Success Company
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.
Ehrlich währt am längsten
Sir George Chudleigh
Fedora
Second Director
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
Sorcerer
Lartigue
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
Tod eines Fremden
Mahmoud
A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing him, but instead they set their sights on the wrong man. Left in the wake of their mistaken pursuit is a trail of broken lives and brutal murders.
So oder so ist das Leben
Junge Mädchen mögen's heiß, Hausfrauen noch heißer
Direktor
A bunch of high school graduates practice love with their classmates who have a lot of experience, because they spend their free time as escort ladies and therefore earn a lot of money.
Der Vorgang
Immobilien
Dr. Ringer
Escape to the Sun
Prof. Abramowiz
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their lives
Hausfrauen-Report 3
Rechtsanwalt
German sex comedy
The Smugglers
Hausfrauen-Report 2
Arzt
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
The Tinker
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried
Priest (uncredited)
An "adults only" retelling of the legend of Siegfried.
Dial Love for Murder
Vanetti
A man plans to kill his wealthy wife for her money and so he can be with his beautiful young mistress. However, things don't turn out exactly as he had planned.
Hauser's Memory
Dr. Shepilov
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
Wer ist der nächste?
Kettle
Der Mann am Strick
Levi
Das Missverständliche im Leben des Herrn Knöbel
Salmeier
Die Mühle von Sanssouci
Voltaire
Die goldene Pille
Priester
Ein Sarg für Mr. Holloway
Spider
Glorious Times in the Spessart
Mayor
The countess is married, and the ghosts are still in the Spessart. Her husband becomes an astronaut and the story involved time travelling and space travelling starts.
Der Auswanderer
Der Auswanderer
Ein treuer Diener seines Herrn
Graf Simon
I Deal In Danger
Eckhardt
Compilation of the show Blue Light.
Der Spielverderber - Das kurze, verstörte Leben des Kaspar Hauser
Gelehrter
In 1828 a man called Kaspar Hauser appears in Nuremberg, barely able to speak and walk. He is admitted to the house of a professor, who among other things explores Kaspar's unusual characteristics and deals with his education.
Auf einem Bahnhof bei Dijon
Eric Borunesco
Bei Tag und Nacht
Marchese Ricardo
Napoleon greift ein
Landru
Die Teilnahme
Ezra Shaber
Der Prozeß Carl von O.
Dritter Mitarbeiter der 'Weltbühne'
Der Fall Sacco und Vanzetti
Musmano
Maria Stuart
Aubespine
Der arme Bitos... oder Das Diner der Köpfe
Philippe / Jesuitenpater
Egmont
Machiavelli
The Counterfeit Traitor
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
One, Two, Three
Mishkin
C.R. MacNamara will do anything to get a promotion within the Coca-Cola company, including looking after boss W.P. Hazeltine's rebellious teenage daughter, Scarlett. When Scarlett visits Berlin, where C.R. is stationed, she reveals that she is married to a communist named Otto Piffl -- and C.R. recognizes that Otto's anti-establishment stance will clash with his boss's own political views, possibly jeopardizing his promotion.
The Big Show
Pietro Vizzini
A European circus family is torn apart by greed and jealousy.
Die eiskalte Nacht
Kalany
Zur letzten Instanz
Nectaire
So ist es - ist es so?
Lamberto Laudisi
Satan Tempts with Love
Geck
A crime movie directed by Rudolf Jugert.
Das große Messer
Smiley Coy
For the First Time
Intendant Huebner
In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.
Du gehörst mir
Der öffentliche Ankläger
Montané
Schwester Bonaventura
Dr. Jeffreys
Wet Asphalt
Jimmy Donnagan
In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.
Die Abiturientin
Professor Dr. Edmund Spindler
Paths of Glory
Narrator of Opening Sequence
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
The Burglar
Baylock
Burglar Nat Harbin and his two associates set their sights on wealthy spiritualist Sister Sarah, who has inherited a fortune -- including a renowned emerald necklace -- from a Philadelphia financier. Using Nat's female ward, Gladden, to pose as an admirer and case the mansion where the woman lives, they set up a perfect break-in. Things get complicated afterwards.
Montserrat
Izquierdo
The Night of the Storm
Dr. Baumgarten
Despised by her husband and son after an affair, Marianne moves in with her lover, an unsuccessful painter, until she is purified.
Walk East on Beacon!
Chris Zalenko / Gino
An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.